HRS §84-11
Rules on gifts for lawmakers and state workers
This section bans legislators and state employees from taking any gift, in any form, if it could reasonably be seen as trying to influence their official actions or as a reward for something they did. It covers gifts given directly or indirectly, including money, services, loans, trips, or hospitality.
employees
The statute, as written — Gifts
No legislator or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the legislator or employee in the performance of the legislator's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the legislator's or employee's part.
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